steamboat

• “The term steamboat is usually used to refer to smaller steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats; steamship generally refers to larger steam-powered ships, usually ocean-going, capable of carrying a (ship's) boat.”

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• “He is on white man's fire-boat, what you call steamboat, only he is on boat maybe twenty times bigger than steamboat on Yukon.”

  Love of Life and Other Stories

• “The steamboat is claimed as the “exclusive” discovery of Fulton, Jouffroy, Rumsey, Stevens and Symmington.”

  In the Air « Isegoria

• “Silverheaded; but, to my great relief, it turned out that the steamboat is not running.”

  Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “White aw black aw octoroom free niggeh, Phyllis gwine to choose de old Hayle home and de great riveh -- full o 'steamboat' -- sooneh'n any lan 'whah de ain't mo'n one 'oman to de mile.”

  Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi

• “Now the steamboat is a paddlewheel-sporting boutique hotel permanently moored at Coolidge Park Landing in downtown Chattanooga, Tenn.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Anchored, Away

• “This steamboat, which is called the Burlington, is a perfectly exquisite achievement of neatness, elegance, and order.”

  American Notes for General Circulation

• “The steamboat was the first man-made apparatus to radically interrupt the arcadian wilderness, collapse vast distance, and discharge the artifacts of distant cultures into remote places.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “If the river was, as T. S. Eliot later wrote, “a strong brown god,” the steamboat was the godhead.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “There, on the deck of the steamboat were the old Bohemian and the woman.”

  Michael Strogoff

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